Hammer and box-scraper



(No Model.)

. F. A. OOWLES.

HAMMER AND BOX SGRAPBR.

. No. 275,025. Patented Apr. 3, 1883-.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK A. COWLES, OF PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

HAMMER AND BOX-SCRAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,025, dated April 3, 1883.

Application filed August 18, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. CowLEs, of Plantsville, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hammers and Box-Scrapers, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to improvements in hammers and box scrapers in which a hammer-head is provided with a scrapingblade that projects to one side from one of the front corners of said head; and the objects of my invention are to so attach a box-scraper to ah'ammer-head that it will not only be in a convenient position for use as a box-scraper, but so that it will not interfere with or inconvenience the use of the hammer as such, so that it will be firm and durable, and so thatit can be attached at a small cost; also that it can be detached for the purpose of sharpening, repairing, or for the substitution of a new one. It is most especially designed for use as a shippers hammer. I attain these objects by the construction represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of my hammer and box-scraper, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. I

A designates an ordinary hammerhead. In one side thereof and parallel to the eye is a dovetailed groove, the same being made tapering lengthwise, and with overhanging side walls. I form the box-scraper from substantially a T-shaped blank of sheet metal, the head of the T being bent up at right angles to the shank a to form the scrapingblade b, as shown. The shank a rests in and is fitted (No model.)

| to the groove in the head, and may be additionally secured by the screw 0, if desired. This construction firmly seats the box-scraping blade in'place and brings it by the side of one of the front corners of the hammer, so as to project but slightly therefrom, and so as not to be in the way.

If desired, the end of the shank or might be extended back far enough to hook over the inner end of the ham mer-eye, and thereby se-- cure it in place: but the first-described construction is preferred. The blade might also be secured in the position shown by making its shank and receiving-slot extend transversely across that portion of the front of the ham merhead which is on one side of the eye.

1 am aware that prior patents show hatchets having hammer-headsand with scrapers formed on one of the front corners by the side of the eye, and all made integral with the hatchet, and the same are hereby disclaimed. So far as I am aware, a detachable scraper was never before located upon the ordinary claw-hammer in the position herein shown and described.

I claim as'my invention- The herein described hammer, having the detachable scrapingblade rigidly secured to its head at oneside and about midway of the length of the hammer, and sustaining the relation to the rounded face of the claw substantially as described, and for the purpose Witnesses GEORGE E. GRUTTENDEN, EUGENE H. S ITH. 

